WOW Ronni ! Well I feel that my requirements are very much like yours. Particularly in that I don’t use P, N or K. So thank you for your input …. I will retain Dropbox as my PDF and MS Office offsite backup. That is my main purpose for it after all.
> On 14 Dec 2014, at 7:41 am, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > iCloud Drive is not a Dropbox replacement. I have not moved from Dropbox to > iCloud Drive. > And I really can't see myself using iCloud Drive in the near future - as I > don't use the iOS versions of Pages, Numbers, Keynote. > > A couple of quick points: > 1. It should be noted that iCloud Drive requires iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, so > legacy devices running Mavericks or iOS 7 will not be able to keep their > documents up to date with other devices. > In addition, once a user has upgraded to iCloud Drive, they cannot downgrade > back to Documents in the Cloud. > > <http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201385 > <http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201385>> > <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6558264 > <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6558264>> > > 2. iCloud Drive Is Not a Dropbox Replacement > > "The two services work differently. Take sharing, for instance. iCloud is > generally all about sharing, but it’s mostly about sharing your stuff with > your devices: that is, sharing the same stuff (calendars, music, mail, your > budget in Numbers, and your half-finished novel in Pages) among all of your > devices. Sharing stuff with other people, even other iCloud users, is not > easy, and worse, the options are limited and tightly focused (such as > specific photo streams or explicitly shared documents in Pages or Numbers)." > > Dropbox, on the other hand, lets you share folders and all the documents > therein with other Dropbox users - for collaboration with others working on > the same project, writing, editing etc. Doing the same thing with iCloud > Drive would be impossible. > > iCloud, unlike Dropbox, doesn’t store previous versions of a file (though > some individual apps do), nor does it let you restore deleted files. > > "Most importantly, though, iCloud Drive is not just a file sharing service. > Remember that apps on both Mac and iOS have a lot to say about what you can > do with their app libraries. This means that the Finder, in order to create > the illusion that iCloud Drive is just another drive with a bunch of folders > and yet respect those individual apps’ rights and requirements concerning > their own stuff, can behave unpredictably. You can’t tell by sight, for > example, which app libraries will accept which files until you try them." > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 13 Dec 2014, at 9:56 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Just interested if anyone has moved from Dropbox to iCloud Drive ? >> And if so what you feel are the pros and cons ? >> >> Regards, >> Stephen Chape >> >> Mac by choice >> Windows because my employer knew no better > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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